How to draw a checkmark / tick using CSS? - css

Question

How to draw the tick symbol using CSS? The symbols I find using Unicode isn't aesthetically-pleasing.
EDIT
Icon fonts are a great suggestion. I was looking for something like this.

Answer 1

You can draw two rectangles and place them next to each other. And then rotate by 45 degrees. Modify the width/height/top/left parameters for any variation.
DEMO 1
.checkmark {
display: inline-block;
width: 22px;
height: 22px;
-ms-transform: rotate(45deg); /* IE 9 */
-webkit-transform: rotate(45deg); /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
transform: rotate(45deg);
}
.checkmark_stem {
position: absolute;
width: 3px;
height: 9px;
background-color: #ccc;
left: 11px;
top: 6px;
}
.checkmark_kick {
position: absolute;
width: 3px;
height: 3px;
background-color: #ccc;
left: 8px;
top: 12px;
}
<span class="checkmark">
<div class="checkmark_stem"></div>
<div class="checkmark_kick"></div>
</span>
DEMO 2 (With circle)
.checkmark {
display: inline-block;
width: 22px;
height: 22px;
-ms-transform: rotate(45deg); /* IE 9 */
-webkit-transform: rotate(45deg); /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
transform: rotate(45deg);
}
.checkmark_circle {
position: absolute;
width: 22px;
height: 22px;
background-color: green;
border-radius: 11px;
left: 0;
top: 0;
}
.checkmark_stem {
position: absolute;
width: 3px;
height: 9px;
background-color: #fff;
left: 11px;
top: 6px;
}
.checkmark_kick {
position: absolute;
width: 3px;
height: 3px;
background-color: #fff;
left: 8px;
top: 12px;
}
<span class="checkmark">
<div class="checkmark_circle"></div>
<div class="checkmark_stem"></div>
<div class="checkmark_kick"></div>
</span>

Answer 2

Here is another CSS solution. It takes fewer lines of code.
ul li:before {
content: '\2713';
display: inline-block;
color: red;
padding: 0 6px 0 0;
}
ul li {
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 1em;
}
<ul>
<li>test1</li>
<li>test</li>
</ul>

Answer 3

Do some transforms with the letter L
.checkmark {
font-family: arial;
-ms-transform: scaleX(-1) rotate(-35deg); /* IE 9 */
-webkit-transform: scaleX(-1) rotate(-35deg); /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
transform: scaleX(-1) rotate(-35deg);
}
<div class="checkmark">L</div>

Answer 4

only css, quite simple I find it:
.checkmark {
display: inline-block;
transform: rotate(45deg);
height: 25px;
width: 12px;
margin-left: 60%;
border-bottom: 7px solid #78b13f;
border-right: 7px solid #78b13f;
}
<div class="checkmark"></div>

Answer 5

You can now include web fonts and even shrink down the file size with just the glyphs you need.
https://github.com/fontello/fontello
http://fontello.com/
li:before {
content:'[add icon symbol here]';
font-family: [my cool web icon font here];
display:inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
line-height: 1em;
width: 1em;
height:1em;
margin-right: 0.3em;
text-align: center;
color: #999;
}

Answer 6

An additional solution, for when you only have one of the :before / :after psuedo-elements available, is described here: :after-Checkbox using borders
It basically uses the border-bottom and border-right properties to create the checkbox, and then rotates the mirrored L using transform
Example
li {
position: relative; /* necessary for positioning the :after */
}
li.done {
list-style: none; /* remove normal bullet for done items */
}
li.done:after {
content: "";
background-color: transparent;
/* position the checkbox */
position: absolute;
left: -16px;
top: 0px;
/* setting the checkbox */
/* short arm */
width: 5px;
border-bottom: 3px solid #4D7C2A;
/* long arm */
height: 11px;
border-right: 3px solid #4D7C2A;
/* rotate the mirrored L to make it a checkbox */
transform: rotate(45deg);
-o-transform: rotate(45deg);
-ms-transform: rotate(45deg);
-webkit-transform: rotate(45deg);
}
To do:
<ul>
<li class="done">Great stuff</li>
<li class="done">Easy stuff</li>
<li>Difficult stuff</li>
</ul>

Answer 7

I've used something similar to BM2ilabs's answer in the past to style the tick in checkboxes. This technique uses only a single pseudo element so it preserves the semantic HTML and there is no reason for additional HTML elements.
Simple, semantic, without any dependencies or additional HTML.
label {
cursor: pointer;
}
input[type="checkbox"] {
position: relative;
top: 2px;
box-sizing: content-box;
width: 14px;
height: 14px;
margin: 0 5px 0 0;
cursor: pointer;
-webkit-appearance: none;
border-radius: 2px;
background-color: #fff;
border: 1px solid #b7b7b7;
}
input[type="checkbox"]:before {
content: '';
display: block;
transition: transform 200ms;
}
input[type="checkbox"]:checked:before {
width: 4px;
height: 9px;
margin: 0px 4px;
border-bottom: 2px solid #115c80;
border-right: 2px solid #115c80;
transform: rotate(45deg);
}
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="check-1" value="Label">Label
</label>

Answer 8

Try this
// html example
<span>✓</span>
// css example
span {
content: "\2713";
}

Answer 9

i like this way because you don't need to create two components just one.
.checkmark:after {
opacity: 1;
height: 4em;
width: 2em;
-webkit-transform-origin: left top;
transform-origin: left top;
border-right: 2px solid #5cb85c;
border-top: 2px solid #5cb85c;
content: '';
left: 2em;
top: 4em;
position: absolute;
}
Animation from Scott Galloway Pen
$('#toggle').click(function() {
$('.circle-loader').toggleClass('load-complete');
$('.checkmark').toggle();
});
body {
padding: 5em;
text-align: center;
}
h1 {
margin-bottom: 1em;
}
.circle-loader {
margin-bottom: 3.5em;
border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
border-left-color: #5cb85c;
animation: loader-spin 1.2s infinite linear;
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
border-radius: 50%;
width: 7em;
height: 7em;
}
.load-complete {
-webkit-animation: none;
animation: none;
border-color: #5cb85c;
transition: border 500ms ease-out;
}
.checkmark {
display: none;
}
.checkmark.draw:after {
animation-duration: 800ms;
animation-timing-function: ease;
animation-name: checkmark;
transform: scaleX(-1) rotate(135deg);
}
.checkmark:after {
opacity: 1;
height: 3.5em;
width: 1.75em;
transform-origin: left top;
border-right: 3px solid #5cb85c;
border-top: 3px solid #5cb85c;
content: '';
left: 1.75em;
top: 3.5em;
position: absolute;
}
#keyframes loader-spin {
0% {
transform: rotate(0deg);
}
100% {
transform: rotate(360deg);
}
}
#keyframes checkmark {
0% {
height: 0;
width: 0;
opacity: 1;
}
20% {
height: 0;
width: 1.75em;
opacity: 1;
}
40% {
height: 3.5em;
width: 1.75em;
opacity: 1;
}
100% {
height: 3.5em;
width: 1.75em;
opacity: 1;
}
}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<h1>Circle loader with checkmark completed state <small>CSS Animation</small></h1>
<div class="circle-loader">
<div class="checkmark draw"></div>
</div>
<p><button id="toggle" type="button" class="btn btn-success">Toggle Completed</button></p>

Answer 10

li:before {
content: '';
height: 5px;
background-color: green;
position: relative;
display: block;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
width: 9px;
margin-left: -15px;
-ms-transform: rotate(45deg);
-webkit-transform: rotate(45deg);
transform: rotate(45deg);
}
li:after {
content: '';
height: 5px;
background-color: green;
position: relative;
display: block;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
width: 20px;
margin-left: -11px;
margin-top: -6px;
-ms-transform: rotate(-45deg);
-webkit-transform: rotate(-45deg);
transform: rotate(-45deg);
}

Answer 11

After some changing to above Henry's answer, I got a tick with in a circle, I came here looking for that, so adding my code here.
.snackbar_circle {
background-color: #f0f0f0;
border-radius: 13px;
padding: 0 5px;
}
.checkmark {
font-family: arial;
font-weight: bold;
-ms-transform: scaleX(-1) rotate(-35deg);
-webkit-transform: scaleX(-1) rotate(-35deg);
transform: scaleX(-1) rotate(-35deg);
color: #63BA3D;
display: inline-block;
}
<span class="snackbar_circle">
<span class="checkmark">L</span>
</span>

Answer 12

I suggest to use a tick symbol not draw it. Or use webfonts which are free for example: fontello[dot]com You can than replace the tick symbol with a web font glyph.
Lists
ul {padding: 0;}
li {list-style: none}
li:before {
display:inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
line-height: 1em;
width: 1em;
height:1em;
margin-right: 0.3em;
text-align: center;
content: '✔';
color: #999;
}
body {
font-size: 75%;
}
ul {
padding: 0;
}
li {
list-style: none
}
li:before {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
line-height: 1em;
width: 1em;
height: 1em;
margin-right: 0.3em;
text-align: center;
content: '✔';
color: #999;
}
<ul>
<li>This is a list item</li>
<li>This is a list item</li>
</ul>
Checkboxes
You even have web fonts with tick symbol glyphs and CSS 3 animations. For IE8 you would need to apply a polyfill since it does not understand :checked.
input[type="checkbox"] {
clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);
left: -9999px;
position: absolute !important;
}
label:before,
input[type="checkbox"]:checked + label:before {
content:'';
display:inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
line-height: 1em;
border: 1px solid #999;
border-radius: 0.3em;
width: 1em;
height:1em;
margin-right: 0.3em;
text-align: center;
}
input[type="checkbox"]:checked + label:before {
content: '✔';
color: green;
}
body {
font-size: 75%;
}
input[type="checkbox"] {
clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);
left: -9999px;
position: absolute !important;
}
label:before,
input[type="checkbox"]:checked+label:before {
content: '';
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
line-height: 1em;
border: 1px solid #999;
border-radius: 0.3em;
width: 1em;
height: 1em;
margin-right: 0.3em;
text-align: center;
}
input[type="checkbox"]:checked+label:before {
content: '✔';
color: green;
}
<input type="checkbox" value="Option 1" name="option_1" id="option_1" />
<label for="option_1">option 1</label>

Answer 13

You might want to try fontawesome.io
It has great collection of icons. For you <i class="fa fa-check" aria-hidden="true"></i> should work. There are many check icons in this too. Hope it helps.

Answer 14

We can use CSS pseudo-element to make the checkmark/tick sign. Suppose, we have a span tag in our HTML and we want to place out checkmark before the span. We can simply do this:
<span class="check_text">Some Text</span>
Now, we can add the CSS like this:
span.check_text:before {
position: absolute;
height: 15px;
width: 5px;
border-bottom: 3px solid red;
border-right: 3px solid red;
content: "";
transform: rotate(45deg);
left: -25px;
top: 2px;
}

Answer 15

If you want a tick, you probably also want a cross, with background colours.
.icon {
display: inline-block;
width: 22px; height: 22px;
border-radius: 50%;
transform: rotate(45deg);
}
.icon::before, .icon::after { position: absolute; content: ''; background-color: #fff; }
.icon.icon-success { background: green; }
.icon.icon-success:before { width: 3px; height: 9px; top: 6px; left: 11px; }
.icon.icon-success:after { width: 3px; height: 3px; top: 12px; left: 8px; }
.icon.icon-failure { background: lightcoral; }
.icon.icon-failure::before { width: 3px; height: 12px; top: 5px; left: 10px; }
.icon.icon-failure::after { width: 12px; height: 3px; top: 10px; left: 5px; }
<i class="icon icon-success"></i>
<i class="icon icon-failure"></i>

Answer 16

This is my variant for making 'checked' buttons
function clickMe(data) {
data.classList.add("checked");
}
.unchecked::before {
content: "C";
}
.unchecked {
border-radius: 50%;
outline: none;
}
.checked::before {
content: "L";
}
.checked {
background-color: green;
transform: rotate(45deg) scaleX(-1);
}
<button class="unchecked" type="submit" onclick="clickMe(this); return false;" value="something"></button>

Answer 17

Also, using the awesome font, you can use the following tag.
Simple and beautiful
With the possibility of changing the size and color and other features in CSS
See result:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
<h1>fa fa-check-circle</h1>
<i class="fa fa-check-circle"></i>
<i class="fa fa-check-circle" style="font-size:24px"></i>
<i class="fa fa-check-circle" style="font-size:36px"></i>
<i class="fa fa-check-circle" style="font-size:48px;color:red"></i>
<br>
<p>Used on a button:</p>
<button style="font-size:24px">Button <i class="fa fa-check-circle"></i></button>
<p>Unicode:</p>
<i style="font-size:24px" class="fa"></i>

Answer 18

This is simple css for Sign Mark.
ul li:after{opacity: 1;content: '\2713';right: 20px;position: absolute;font-size: 20px;font-weight: bold;}